Attack Power is the backbone stat of the Beast Mastery tree. Two Attack Power is about 15% better than one Agility.

Beast Mastery Talent DPS (post 3.1)

Amazing Talents:
Bestial Discipline - About 115 DPS per point!
Frenzy - 1st point is over 300 DPS!
Serpent's Swiftness - Each of the 5 points is worth over 100 DPS!
Beast Mastery - Finally! The 51 point talent is now worth extra DPS, 253 DPS to be exact!
Go for the Throat - 500 DPS for the 1st talent point!

Overrated Talents:
Frenzy - 4th talent point gives 5 DPS and the 5th talent point gives 1 DPS.
Ferocious Inspiration - Most likely your group will have either a Ret Paladin or an Enhancement Shaman which means FI only increases Arcane Shot damage... but it is necessary to pick up the 1st point in Invigoration.

Beast Mastery Glyph DPS (post 3.1)

Bestial Wrath is really the only must have glyph. Wish there was a glyph that gave BM a little more flavor in PvE.

Beast Mastery Pet DPS

The Devilsaur, Wolf and Raptor lead the pack of Ferocity pets by a good 100+ DPS.

After my experience with a Devilsaur in PvE, I do not recommend them as they tend to aggro extra mobs and get hit by more things since they grow so large.

Some of the pets do not use their special as it would be an actual decrease in DPS (from just spamming Bite, Claw or Smack).

PvE Pet Talent Trees

This build is for maximum DPS. If Heart of the Phoenix is a required talent for you, than you would have to take a point out of Boar's Speed and Shark Attack.

Owl's Focus does not increase DPS when you are using a shot rotation with 1 point in Go for the Throat (along with 2 points in Bestial Discipline).

42 comments:

I'm still waiting for free respec coming with 3.1 to make one PVP Spec. I'll try BM PVP spec. Can you suggest or actualize your "BM PVP" session with 3.1 incoming changes like you have made with this Post???? I'm anxious to use my Nuramoc (spend 5 days hunting him to tame)or my Wasp like you have used yet.There is a lack of BM Hunters that really appreciate to make PVP with his current BM Spec like me; with or without Exotic Pet's.

This blog is the best ever Hunter PVP and PVE guide with all information we need. Great work. =)

I don't use a shot macro. The BM shot rotation is easy enough, just blow your cooldowns whenever they are up and always use arcane and aimed (or multi-shot if you don't spec aimed) whenever they are up. Everything else is steady shot.

Once 3.1 hits I will be trying Marksmanship and BM with my Nuramoc for PvP. Since the Cunning tree is getting a buff with the addition of Roar of Sacrifice, Cunning pets might be okay.

The main problem Cunning pets will have is against full resilience targets they will only have 1-5% chance to crit, which really nerfs their damage. So in that case, I might just stick with the Wasp...

Also, sorry I would of added this, I love my Gorilla over a bear, but from what I am reading, quoting (http://wowwhimsy.wordpress.com/2009/04/14/beast-mastery-off-spec-for-tanking-and-soloing-in-31/#comment-606) "The Gorilla’s new family skill Pummel is not an AOE skill, whereas the bears swipe combined with thunderstomp makes it one of the most powerful tanking pets in the game, especially for multiple mobs."

That makes me sad :-( Bears are cool, but my Gorilla and I have been together for so long.

Im curious why you chose 5/5 mortal shots and 3/3 imp arcane shot over 5/5 imp tracking and 2/2survival instincts...since both of the latter talents generate more DPS per talent point according to your chart?

The main addons I use in Raids are NeedToKnow (helps keep track of Hunter's Mark and Serpent Sting), Omen (really nice as Marks, as aggro is a big problem early in a fight), Deadly Boss Mods, Viper Notify, and RangeDisplay.

I have standard Naxx 25 man gear with a few pieces of Ulduar 10 man gear. The high attack power is due to having 25 man raid buffs.

I have been looking at your numbers all day and I think its easy to see how it maximizes DPS within the BM tree, but I have one major concern when looking at your hunter tree + ferocity tree.

When you put nothing into boosting your pets health, stam, or armor...how in the world do you keep him alive? I also feel that Heart of the Phoenix is a mandatory TP for my pet. I have taken all but 1pt into thick hide and did all other TPs but my pet still kicks the bucket and he is a large % of my dps.

I can understand wanting to have a Heart of the Phoenix for your pet as a BM Hunter... and I would say that is probably wise until your learn all the boss fights and figure out how to keep your pet alive.

Once you have learned how to keep your pet alive, I would drop Heart of the Phoenix in order to pick up more damage talents.

Unfortunately, every other hunter I've listened to, and from my own experience, have a problem with how Devilsaurs become insanely huge and aggro other mobs, bug out or get hit by things they shouldn't in boss fights.

With the last patch I think this needs to be revisited. Hunter's mark now adds 500AP with improved that's 650AP and with the glyph that's an incredible 750AP. Since your AP adds to the pets AP as well this would affect both you and your pet against this mob. I think this will greatly change the worth of each point in improved hunter mark and the importance of the glyph.

My only question is pertaining to the pets, on your pet spreadsheet spirit beasts are all one category, would a spirit wolf (skorr i think) do more dps than a spirit cat? Seeing as cats do less than wolves.

Hi, great article, but I have a doubt about the BM. I tamed an Ancient Core Hound (elite) from Molten Core, but after I tammed The Beast (Boss) from Blackrock. And the top damage from the elite is equal to the base damage of the bossm both at lvl 77, the damage is like 15% more for the Boss, but the health of the Elite is 10% more than the Boss. So I dicided to use the Boss. Where can I find the diferences for the same beasts? because is not like someones says that if they have the same skin they have the same stats

All Core Hounds have the exact same stats. It will not matter if you tamed an elite or the normal ones. If your seeing different damage or health numbers try unspeccing both of them and see what their stats are without pet talent points.

Just curious on one thing though, how would a certain pet rate vs other pets of same type? I have King Dred (DTK raptor pens Boss) which I am assuming is part of the devilsaur group, how would this rate vs another devilsaur (say one thats been Tamed in Ungoro Crater then levelled to 80), is there a big difference, or is this very minimal?

Ah I've finally had it with MM and Surv. I haven't gotten to use my favorite tree since I was leveling so this helped a bunch! I do wish my Spirit Beasts where a bit higher for all the pain it is to tame them on a full server.I'm completly regemming my set for BM and since I got nipped at for going for socket bonuses would you suggest I go just all out attack power gems in my gear? or maybe some variety like arp and crit as well?Also I don't have much for trinkets but I use Whispering Fanged Skull and the Herkuml War Token thinking I need all the AP I can get. I still got my old Grim Toll but ARP doesnt seem too useful for BM. (even tho its on all my gear)

Armor Pen and Crit aren't as valuable for BM as straight attack power (last I checked). If our pet was buffed through all our stats instead of a few things would be much more interesting for BM (option wise).